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Grab your hiking shoes, rollerblades or bicycle: the Community Care Foundation’s virtual Hike for Hospice is now underway. From June… Continue reading “Community Care Foundation’s Virtual Hike for Hospice is underway”

Kawartha Lakes council, by a vote of 7-2, decided at their June 1 committee of the whole meeting to recommend only one route for ORVs to travel through Lindsay. Councillor Pat Dunn called the route the best choice “because it was the shortest, safest route with the fewest number of homes impacted.”
The route selected will impact the following streets:

Dr. Natalie Bocking, medical officer of health for Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit, recommended to council that ORVs… Continue reading “Bocking recommends against ORVs on roads”

If the Off-road Vehicle Task Force gets its way, ORVs could soon be permitted on such busy Lindsay streets as Logie, Wellington, Cambridge and Angeline Streets, among many other choices, as a go-through route. Bobcaygeon, too, could see ORV use on some of its main roads.

In what is expected to be another contentious meeting on June 1, Kawartha Lakes council is being asked to approve a new set of off-road vehicle (ORV) routes through Lindsay and Bobcaygeon.

Globus Theatre has partnered with The Foster Festival to bring another inspiring story from renowned Canadian playwright Norm Foster to audiences at home.

Theatre lovers can now book a dinner and show package from Globus Theatre that includes digital theatre tickets for the live online play reading of Norm Foster’s 1812, plus dinner from the Lakeview Arts Barn in Bobcaygeon.

Fire Chief Mark Pankhurst has announced his retirement, effective June 30, 2021, after more than 32 years of exemplary service… Continue reading “Fire chief announces retirement”

Fleming College has started accepting applications for Ontario’s new accelerated training program for Personal Support Workers (PSWs) at Lindsay’s Frost Campus of Fleming College.

The program is part of the Ontario government’s $115 million investment to train up to 8,200 new PSWs as part of the governments’ overall strategy to hire 27,000 new nurses, PSWs, and other health professionals within the next few years, according to a media release.